[IsraelTimes] Popular Forces leader al-Duhaini says militia ‘dismantling’ Hamas tunnels, confirms increasing Israeli support; troops kill Palestinian who crossed Gaza’s Yellow Line, IDF says
The leader of an anti-Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
militia based in IDF-controlled areas of the southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip said recently that it is working on demolishing the terror group’s tunnels, a confirmation that further shows Israel’s support for the armed gang.
"We have gradually begun dismantling the tunnels, as they are the most important weapons. Then the weapons production facilities, then the rockets, and finally the light weapons," said Ghassan al-Duhaini, the leader of the Popular Forces.
"In the future, not a single illegal weapon will enter Rafah, and smuggling operations will be dealt with in full force," Duhaini said in a Facebook post on Thursday.
Alongside the post, he published an image showing members of the Popular Forces outside an entrance to a tunnel while wearing oxygen masks.
The Popular Forces was founded by an anti-Hamas armed Bedouin leader, Yasser Abu Shabaab. Abu Shabaab was killed in December in what the group described as a family feud. He was replaced by his deputy, Duhaini, who vowed no let-up in the fight against Hamas.
Israel has previously acknowledged its support for militias fighting Hamas in the enclave. It has provided them with weapons, air support, intelligence, food, and cigarettes, as well as airlifted maimed militia members into Israel for medical care.
The militia controls an area between the Rafah Border Crossing between Gaza and Egypt and an Israel Defense Forces checkpoint screening Paleostinians returning to the Strip. There have been reports of harsh treatment by members of the Popular Forces against Paleostinians returning to Gaza, before the militia members handed them over to the IDF.
Does that mean the Palestinian terrorists and criminals Israel traded at something like 1000:1 for the hostages held in Gaza, or the Gazans who recently came back through the Rafah crossing after sitting out the war in Egypt? Last month, the militia captured a prominent Hamas commander in the Rafah area after he fled a tunnel, and later handed him over to the Israeli military. According to the IDF, the Hamas commander was among eight terror operatives who emerged from a tunnel overnight and were targeted in Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s, and added that he was a "key commander" in Hamas’s East Rafah Battalion.
On Monday, the front man for Hamas’s armed al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida,
…second of that nom de guerre, as I recall — the IDF killed the first one… issued a threat to the Popular Forces and other Israeli-backed Paleostinian militias in Gaza, saying: "A dark fate is coming soon."
"Their ending will be death and annihilation, and the enemy will not protect them from the justice of our people," said Abu Obeida.
The threat appeared to come in response to a statement by Popular Forces leader Duhaini on Monday mocking the death of the scion of a prominent Hamas family.
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